WAIPUKURAU.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 2978, 3 October 1893, Page 2

WAIPUKURAU.

(OWN CORRESPONDENT) The Mutual Improvement Association have a meeting to night to arrange an entertainment for the wind-up of the session, at which the attendance of all members is requested. Messrs Gore and Staines are pushing on with Mr J. Harding’s woolshed ; nouiinally they are making additions to it although virtually it will bo an entirely' new shed, measuring 60 x 46 from ons end of the shearing board to the other, the whole of the old shed being taken up by catching pens and an alley in the centre 10ft wide to fill them from, the shearing boards forming wings to the old shed. The structure will be light and airy, as there will bo a window to each shearer, besides which a ventilator will run the entire length of the ridge. Each wiudow will be fitted with a spring roller blind, the gates of nil the pens will b» hong on the sash weight principle. The press room is 22 x 18, to which has been added an engine shed, 22 x 12. The machines to be used will be those of Messrs Nelson and Niven. At the upper end of the building and at right angles to it are the night pens, which are very commodious, extending some fifty feet beyond the end of the shed. Entirely new yards are also in the course of erection. Mr Harding's shed will be, when completed, one of the most convenient in the province. A rumour is current here that a certain contractor has absconded. If this is true, and there seems to be every reason to bylieve it to be so, then some of our local trades paople will have to suffer, which in these days of cutting down they can ill afford. Tho County Cricket Club hold their anuual meeting on Wedneslay evening at theTavislock Hotel.